Explore Pocked through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like pockmarked or potholed. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Pocked meaning
simple past and past participle of pock
Synonyms of Pocked
Using Pocked
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of pock
- Useful related words include: pockmarked, potholed, rough, unsmooth.
- In the example corpus, pocked often appears in combinations such as: pocked with.
Context around Pocked
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 7 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 13 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pocked
- In this selection, "pocked" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, roofs, vehicle, mixed, homes, face and knives stand out and add context to how "pocked" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a clearing pocked with muddy and a vehicle pocked with apparent. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pocked" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pocked
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Broken walls, windows and roofs pocked homes and businesses. (9 words)
Officers described coming across bodies, bleeding students and bullet-pocked windows. (11 words)
But he was young and balding, with a pocked face and limp fingers that he wiped over his cheeks in shyness. (21 words)
The 1.5-mile stretch of pothole-pocked road from Interstate 35E to Selby Avenue closed to traffic on Aug. 1 for the $1.7 million rebuild, which reduced it to three lanes from four to make room for the new mixed-use path. (44 words)
His self-burnished image as a tip-top deal-maker long has obscured an actual record that is far more mixed, pocked with moves and acquisitions that scratched a passing itch but created massive financial problems later. (37 words)
A few hundred metres into the forest was a clearing pocked with muddy pits, where the agents found three men standing waist-deep in a wide, murky pool, funnelling water through a series of wooden pans. (36 words)
Example sentences (13)
Broken walls, windows and roofs pocked homes and businesses.
But he was young and balding, with a pocked face and limp fingers that he wiped over his cheeks in shyness.
While parts have been replaced, it still demonstrates historic bomb damage and even a great deal of graffiti scrawled into it with pocked-knives by 18th-century naughty schoolboys.
In addition, many of Gaza’s roads are impassable, blocked by the rubble of destroyed buildings or pocked with bomb craters.
Police are investigating the death of a woman whose body was found Tuesday night in a vehicle pocked with apparent bullet holes in St. Johnsbury.
His self-burnished image as a tip-top deal-maker long has obscured an actual record that is far more mixed, pocked with moves and acquisitions that scratched a passing itch but created massive financial problems later.
The 1.5-mile stretch of pothole-pocked road from Interstate 35E to Selby Avenue closed to traffic on Aug. 1 for the $1.7 million rebuild, which reduced it to three lanes from four to make room for the new mixed-use path.
A few hundred metres into the forest was a clearing pocked with muddy pits, where the agents found three men standing waist-deep in a wide, murky pool, funnelling water through a series of wooden pans.
But Ronald Pfumbidzai should have scored in the 54th minute when he got behind the defence, but his pocked shot was blocked by the goalkeeper.
Despite the seriousness of this case of an attempted assassination of his deputy, he pocked fun at him at the next so-called Interface Rally.
Officers described coming across bodies, bleeding students and bullet-pocked windows.
The pocked hallways of Laval Senior Academy need repairs, but the $1.9 million allocated for renovations in 2019 will go toward fixing the building's structural problems.
He suffers from bad dandruff and his skin is pocked by scars from procedures to remove cancerous growths. ; Dusty : Female bodybuilder and coder who is introduced later in the novel.
Common combinations with pocked
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: